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VBPL has 11 locations including a joint-use library with a community college, a law library, and a bookmobile for early literacy outreach. The different library buildings range in size from the large 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) Central Library on busy Virginia Beach Boulevard to the much smaller Pungo-Blackwater Library attached to Creeds Elementary School on Princess Anne Road.
Blackwater Regional Library system serves the counties of Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, and the city of Franklin in Virginia. The library system is within Region 3 of Virginia Library Association (VLA). [1] According to FY 2015 Statistical Data for Virginia Public Libraries, the Blackwater Regional Library serves a population of ...
The following list of Carnegie libraries in West Virginia provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in West Virginia, where 3 public libraries were built from 3 grants (totaling $81,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1907. In addition, one academic library was built.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Franklin is a town in and the county seat of Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 486 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Franklin was established in 1794 and named for Francis Evick, an early settler.
The McCoy House, also known as Franklin Town Office or Pendleton County Library, is a historic home located at Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built in 1848, and is a two- to three-story, L-shaped, brick building in the Greek Revival-style. It features a one-bay entrance portico with two sets of double Ionic order columns. A ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,143, [1] making it the second-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Franklin . [ 2 ] The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 [ 3 ] from parts of Augusta , Hardy , and Rockingham counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), a distinguished ...
The newly formed West Virginia Library Association (formed in 1914) campaigned for the legislation. Between 1917 and 1930, fourteen public libraries existed in the state. [1] The West Virginia Library Commission was created in 1929 by the legislature and housed in Morgantown on the campus of West Virginia University, but no state funding was ...